Yes it seems overly sensationalised but I was interested in the way they tested the Government labs with real panther scat at around the 20 minute mark.
Definitely seems like evidence of a conspiracy to with-hold information from the public.

Have watched that doco on alien big cats before. Well produced, except for that ham of a host Bill Kerr. His ridiculous over the top presentation style really gets up my nose! It certainly detracts from the show's credibility.

That aside, there's lots of good eyewitness evidence. No doubt those big paw felines are out there!

There was scat taken from the Winchelsea area of Victoria by ARFRA and tested as being 99.99% Puma/Panther. ARFRA have been told in no uncertain terms that the Government will NEVER admit to a population of Big Cats in Australia as it opens up a whole host of problems for them.

An Ecologist with the Government was asked 'off the record' did he personally believe that Big Cats exist in the bush of Victoria and he said 'Most definitely'.

ARFRA has quite literally hundreds of big cat sightings in Victoria alone, even up to the present day, but even if you drop the body of a dead Big Cat on the door of parliament they will still say it was some idiot who had it as a pet and released it. Admitting they are there and breeding causes huge expense in public safety initiatives, the Gun lobby would want firearms restrictions relaxed so people are armed in the bush et cetera....

Given that the sightings go back so far, it's likely that the feral big cat population have either been here for a very long time, or what people are seeing is a native animal that closely resembles a cat due to convergent evolution (which is just my own personal opinion, based purely on what I've read over the years).

I'm not sure there's enough evidence for a breeding population of panthers or pumas having been brought to Australia in any of the official records which people have publicly discussed, and there's also the issue of the Minimum Viable Population threshold to consider.

However if there have been scat samples verified, then I'm clearly in the wrong. I've never been convinced that the mystery big cat is an introduced species, but rather a misidentified native one. If we could manage to miss officially identifying Yowies, we could miss other large animals as well.

ARFRA member's have had large black felines within 3 meters of them, luckily they were inside their car but they still managed to get an audio of the cat screaming. Quite clearly a Big Cat upon hearing the vocalisation. Plenty of footprints and then we have Kurt Engel's big cat he shot..

But like most things a simple neat explanation falls apart when you look into it. A friend of mine had a North American cougar come within 10 meters just a few weeks ago, quite unafraid and obviously somebodies released pet. The minimum viable population angle negates the supposed release of mascots by US servicemen during WW2. Some other idiot has brought them in, and now they are breeding.

Then you get the Queensland Tiger, which is probably your best bet for a descendant of Thylacoleo if you are in to the who convergent evolution thing. Even the Aboriginal's are still afraid of them, real bad tempered animal.

VicYowieResearch wrote:ARFRA member's have had large black felines within 3 meters of them, luckily they were inside their car but they still managed to get an audio of the cat screaming. Quite clearly a Big Cat upon hearing the vocalisation. Plenty of footprints and then we have Kurt Engel's big cat he shot..

But like most things a simple neat explanation falls apart when you look into it. A friend of mine had a North American cougar come within 10 meters just a few weeks ago, quite unafraid and obviously somebodies released pet. The minimum viable population angle negates the supposed release of mascots by US servicemen during WW2. Some other idiot has brought them in, and now they are breeding.

Then you get the Queensland Tiger, which is probably your best bet for a descendant of Thylacoleo if you are in to the who convergent evolution thing. Even the Aboriginal's are still afraid of them, real bad tempered animal.

Ah well, you guys would be much more well informed than I am - and yes, it seems that someone other than the anecdotal U.S. Servicemen brought them here at some point.

If they're being seen by experienced investigators then they're here, and I accept that just as I accept the presence of bipedal apes based on footprint evidence and eyewitness reports...but it'd be interesting to know how and when they arrived, as there have been big cat sightings in Australia for a long time. It's also possible that, along with the alien big cats, there's a population of animals descended from the Thylacoleo still roaming around.

There's a whole bunch of stuff out there in the Australian wilderness that we don't have a clue about. It's intriguing.